East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck
4.42
Format: 601 pages, Paperback
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed …
Want to Read $ 0.99"All great and precious things are lonely."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"All great and precious things are lonely."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"No one who is young is ever going to be old."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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1. Therese: A Life of Therese of Lisieux
By: Dorothy Day
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
...the fruit of much research and study on Dorothy's part, captures the heart of the message of Sai… read more
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"The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!"-Dorothy Day, Therese: A Life of Therese of Lisieux
2. Slaughterhouse-Five
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages,
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Fiveintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who beco… read more
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- classics
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
By: Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss
4.30
Format: 1276 pages, Paperback
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress o… read more
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- classics
- literature
- historical
- classic literature
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- historical fiction
- novels
"I am a Count, Not a Saint."-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"He who has a partner has a master."-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !"-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
4. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
By: Ernest J. Gaines
2.00
Format: 88 pages,
"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110… read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. The Old Man and the Sea
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.80
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a moder… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- classic literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"My big fish must be somewhere."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,"-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
6. Lonesome Dove
By: Larry McMurtry
4.00
Format: 117 pages,
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more
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- classics
- historical
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- historical fiction
- novels
7. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- classics
- literature
- classic literature
- fiction
- novels
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
8. East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck
4.42
Format: 601 pages, Paperback
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
- historical
- classic literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"All great and precious things are lonely."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"No one who is young is ever going to be old."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"A man without words is a man without thought."-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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10. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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11. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
12. Crime and Punishment
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , David McDuff
4.27
Format: 671 pages, Paperback
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg a… read more
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- literature
- classic literature
- novels
- fiction
"Life [had] replaced logic."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
13. Catch-22
By: Joseph Heller
3.99
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more
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- american
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- historical
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- historical fiction
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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
14. The Road
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.99
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Carry the fire."-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"If only my heart were stone."-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"You have my whole heart. You always did."-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"There is no God and we are his prophets."-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
15. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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- classics
- american
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- 20th century
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
16. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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17. One Hundred Years of Solitude
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
4.12
Format: 417 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
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- historical fiction
- novels
"Cease, cows, life is short."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"There is always something left to love."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Children inherit their parents' madness."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"بدأ يدرك كم يحب فى الواقع الأشخاص الذين كرههم أكثر من سواهم ."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
18. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
19. Anna Karenina
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude
4.09
Format: 964 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contempo… read more
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- historical
- classic literature
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"Love those you hate you."-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"And where love ends, hate begins"-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"Everything intelligent is so boring."-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"Anything is better than lies and deceit!"-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
20. The Master and Margarita
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None
4.29
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more
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- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
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- novels
"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
21. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.79
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more
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"Never be daunted"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"I am always in love."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
